25 June 2012
There is a career in helping pigs, cows and carabaos get pregnant, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has developed a course for future experts.
Secretary Joel Villanueva announced that the agency and its network of public and private institutions can now offer courses on artificial insemination (AI) in swine and AI in large ruminants such as cows and carabaos, citing the need for such workers to help boost animal production in the country.
The two courses were among the eight Training Regulations (TRs) that were recently promulgated by TESDA.
The six other courses were rubber processing, rubber production, system formworks installation, construction lift passenger/material elevator operation, medical coding and billing, and 2D game art development.
The agency now has a total of 235 promulgated TRs available to students taking technical vocational education, according to Villanueva, Director General of TESDA.
“TESDA regularly conducts consultation with concerned sectors to determine their skills needs. We take into consideration all their input in formulating our training regulations,” Villanueva said.
In an earlier consultation, the Pork Producers Federation had said that technicians in artificial insemination were needed to help boost their livestock production.
AI in animals is a process by which sperm of quality pigs or cows is extracted and injected into the reproductive tract of female farm animals.
As against the natural process of mating, the scientifically planned breeding reduces cost, as the animals no longer have to be transported to another place.
It minimizes, if not control the spread of reproductive diseases. It also allows the use of physically-handicapped or crippled yet superior animals that cannot perform normal mating.
As in the graduates of TESDA’s other courses, AI technicians, after completing the course, will need to undergo assessment and certification.
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